It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Peace begins with a smile..

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.